A local leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami from the city, Mirza Tanweer Ahmed, was gunned down by two motor cycle riders near Sessions Court on Saturday. Mirza Tanweer had been JI candidate for Chairmanship from Yakki Gate falling in the NA constituency of PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz, in the local bodies election last year. Only four days before the polling day, some PML-N hooligans had opened firing at his office due to which two JI workers were killed and six others were injured. Mirza Tanweer had been pursuing their case.
He had appeared in the case in the Sessions Court during the day and was on his way back when two persons on motorcycle opened fire on him killing him on the spot. Earlier, an independent candidate for Chairmanship from the said UC, Hashim Khan, was also assassinated. Ameer, JIP, Senator Sirajul Haq, JI Secretary General, Liaqat Baloch, JI Information Secretary, Amirul Azeem, and JI, Lahore chief, Zikrullah Mujahid, have strongly condemned the murder of Miza Tanveer Ahmed, and held the ruling party responsible for the crime. They said that assignation of political opponents in elections times had become a common feature with the ruling party. However, they were sure that the blood of the innocent people would not go waste.